1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450982103321

Titolo

Ethnic business [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / / edited by Jomo K.S. and Brian C. Folk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-138-81107-6

1-280-17734-9

0-203-31329-1

0-203-41231-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ; ; 50

Classificazione

83.25

Altri autori (Persone)

Jomo K. S (Jomo Kwame Sundaram)

FolkBrian C <1960-> (Brian Cameron)

Disciplina

338.6/422/0959

Soggetti

Minority business enterprises - Southeast Asia

Chinese - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions

Entrepreneurship - Southeast Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes revised papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Malaya in 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ethnic Business; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia; 3. The politics of 'seeing Chinese' and the evolution of a Chinese idiom of business; 4. The cultural limits of 'Confucian capitalism': power and the invention of the family among Chinese traders in Sarawak; 5. All are flexible, but some are more flexible than others: small-scale Chinese businesses in Malaysia; 6. The leading Chinese-Filipino business families in post-Marcos Philippines

7. Pre-1997 Sino-Indonesian conglomerates, compared with those of other ASEAN countries8. Determinants of business capability in Thailand; 9. De-mythologizing Charoen Pokphand: an interpretive picture of the CP Group's growth and diversification; 10. Telecommunications, rents and the growth of a liberalization coalition in Thailand; 11. Japanese transnational production networks and ethnic Chinese business networks in East Asia: linkages and regional



integration; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated - and often misunderstood - throughout cycles of boom and bust.This book critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed 'Asian' values. The in-depth case studies that feature in the book reveal considerable diversity among these firms and the economic and political networks in which they manoeuvre.With contributions from leading scholars and under the impressive edit

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781558703321

Titolo

Coming of Age in America : The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century / / Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-280-10208-X

9786613520548

0-520-95018-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Classificazione

LB 43610

Disciplina

305.2350973/09051

Soggetti

Adolescence - United States - History - 21st century

Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 21st century

Ethnology - United States

Ethnology -- United States

Parent and teenager - United States

Parent and teenager -- United States

Social classes - United States

Social classes -- United States

Adolescence - History - 21st century - United States

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Child & Youth Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa -- 2. Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon -- 3. If You Can Make It There . . . : The Transition to Adulthood in New York City -- 4. Coming of Age in "America's Finest City": Transitions to Adulthood Among Children of Immigrants in San Diego -- 5. Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix: Methods -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places-New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota-to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.